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It could well have been Parr's - that name does seem familiar in the back of my mind. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think there was any indication outside the building as to what went on there, it was just general 'jungle rumblings' at the time that they made Post Office relays and that Ericcsons was very big in Nottingham (Beeston, mainly) and in telephones

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I've been twice. Once for funeral purposes and once to eat. Very good fish and chips. Mr. Haddock also had a branch in The Ossington building on Beastmarket Hill in Newark opposite the castle. The funeral was to do with an uncle. As I recollect I was the first to turn up at his house (I was 21 at the time) and then the funeral director arrived alone and I had to act as his assistant. I helped carry the body out to the van. All very strange!

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It could well have been Parr's - that name does seem familiar in the back of my mind. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think there was any indication outside the building as to what went on there, it was just general 'jungle rumblings' at the time that they made Post Office relays and that Ericcsons was very big in Nottingham (Beeston, mainly) and in telephones

I think it may have been Pressac, they were in Stapleford and are now on Glaisdale Drive.

That former Boots / Ben Bowers building hasn't yet gone downhill but it's going. After Ben Bowers closed, the building had a few other lives but none lasted long. It's been empty and gradually going derelict for several years.

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Talbot Street ,1970.Behind the Cortina on the left..i am wondering if that is where Lamberts workers dwellings were?

The white house on the right was John Proctors- years ago..recall RCTS meetings in there. Opposite the always 'Steaming' Lamberts place was a small sweetshop...painted olive green..always bought Imps in a tin or Victory V's lozenges

Correct, up that lane behind the Cortina was Lambert Cottages. From some research I did into the Dakins fire, I read that Dakin and Stirling owned Lambert Cottages as well as that terrace on the left, after the Cort, 72 to 82 Talbot Street. They had applied in 1966 to demolish the lot, both those terraces as well as the storage building. That was to build a huge "modern" office type building.

It was refused.

Strange that in 1969 the major fire occurred !, still for sale at the time (Walker Walton and Hansons for sale board can be seen above the wall on that 'morning after the fire' photo.)